Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis, 3rd Edition

by Roger H. Clark (North Carolina State University); Michael Pause (North Carolina State University)

• ISBN13: 9780471479741
• ISBN10: 0471479748
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

A revision of the architectural classic on design analysis Precedents in Architecture, Third Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs. Thirty-one leading architects are represented in this updated Third Edition in examinations of more than 100 structures assessed through a diagrammatic technique that is applicable to any structure. This impressive collection includes sixteen new buildings and eight innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. Readers will find valuable guidance in analyzing architectural history as an evolutionary process by exploring the commonality of design ideas reflected in a broad range of structures by internationally renowned architects. Both novices and seasoned professionals will find Precedents in Architecture, Third Edition a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape.

Author Biography

ROGER H. CLARK, FAIA, is a professor of architecture at North Carolina State University, College of Design in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has received more than fifty design awards, publishes regularly in professional journals, and coauthored Kinetic Architecture.

MICHAEL PAUSE, PhD, is a professor of art and design at North Carolina State University, College of Design in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a color and light, graphic, and residential design consultant.

Table of Contents

Prefaces	v
Introduction	xi
Analysis	1	(216)
Alvar Aalto	8	(8)
Tadao Ando	16	(4)
Erik Gunnar Asplund	20	(8)
Peter Q. Bohlin	28	(8)
Mario Botta	36	(8)
Filippo Brunelleschi	44	(8)
Sverre Fehn	52	(4)
Romaldo Giurgola	56	(8)
Nicholas Hawksmoor	64	(8)
Herzog & de Meuron	72	(4)
Steven Holl	76	(4)
Louis I. Kahn	80	(8)
Le Corbusier	88	(8)
Claude Nicholas Ledoux	96	(8)
Sigurd Lewerentz	104	(4)
Edwin Lutyens	108	(8)
Richard Meier	116	(8)
Rafael Moneo	124	(4)
Charles Moore	128	(8)
Glenn Murcutt	136	(4)
Jean Nouvel	140	(4)
Andrea Palladio	144	(8)
Henry Hobson Richardson	152	(8)
James Stirling	160	(8)
Louis Sullivan	168	(8)
Yoshio Taniguchi	176	(4)
Giuseppe Terragni	180	(8)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	188	(8)
Robert Venturi	196	(8)
Frank Lloyd Wright	204	(8)
Peter Zumthor	212	(5)
Formative Ideas	217	(76)
Plan to Section or Elevation	232	(7)
Unit to Whole	239	(7)
Repetitive to Unique	246	(6)
Additive and Subtractive	252	(2)
Symmetry and Balance	254	(6)
Geometry	260	(14)
Configuration Patterns	274	(10)
Progressions	284	(4)
Reduction	288	(5)
Index	293	(1)
Index by Architect	293	(8)
Index by Building	301